In this course you will learn the importance of achieving quality & your role in doing so. You will learn which project & product factors affect the two components of risk, & you'll learn to apply those to various real-life validation situations.

Course Outline

Pre-Requisites

Lessons

Learn the techniques required for testing and validating requirements.

Quality is the major business differentiator in IT. Studies such as the Chaos Report show that the most common cause of low quality is having poor, or poorly understood, requirements. Other common causes are poor design, code, and installation. While prevention of defects is the best cure, identifying and fixing defects as early as possible is key, and some of the responsibility for doing that falls on the business analyst (BA). This course, therefore, concentrates on the validation techniques for:

Requirements

The system at the business level (functional and usability testing)

Acceptance

Business purpose (stakeholder satisfaction with the production product)

In this course you will learn the importance of achieving quality and your role in doing so. You will learn which project and product factors affect the two components of risk (likelihood and impact), and you'll learn to apply those to various real-life validation situations using a case study and practicing testing decision-making. You will learn techniques for:

Validating requirements or any text-based product (such as procedures or plans)

Testing functional and manual requirements

Assessing and testing usability

You will learn to plan functional and usability testing at the business level and the essential elements to document that planning. You'll examine your role in Acceptance, including Acceptance of an outsourced product, and you'll determine how to assess stakeholder satisfaction with the product in production.

Since there is never time, even theoretically, to validate all details of a product, an important concept is using risk assessment to determine the appropriate thoroughness of validation at every stage. Exercises in risk assessment and all the major validation techniques are an integral part of this course.

While the involvement of BAs in testing varies widely across companies, this course assumes maximum involvement at the business level (excluding nonfunctional testing except for usability). Each student can tailor the content to suit a specific company's policies.

Students pursuing a university-recognized and/or accredited certificate in Canada or continuing education units in the US must attend at least 90% of class time, participate in class exercises and section-knowledge checks, and score at least 70% on an end-of-class, multiple-choice assessment.

What You'll Learn

Position the activities of the BA in the complete verification and validation process

Use testing terminology in a standardized way

Use risk to drive the validation effort and therefore use project money wisely

Make decisions on what not to test for defects

Plan appropriate (risk-based) techniques to find defects in the BRD, that is, validate the BRD

Business analysts who have some testing experiencing and want one or more of the following:

A more formal understanding

To be more efficient

To standardize across a group, department, or organization

Business analysts who don't know anything about testing and want to learn how to do it

Project managers who want to understand BA terminology and how the BA sees risks

Course Outline

1. Testing and the BA

Good Testing and Checking

Project Team Verification and Validation Process

Types of Testing

Ways to Verify and Validate

2. High-Level BA Validation

Your Budget and Risk Management

Estimating the Risks of Defects in the System

Developing a High-Level Validation Strategy and Budget

3. Finding Defects in the BRD

Characteristics of a Good BRD

Techniques of Finding Defects in a BRD

Choosing the Appropriate Technique

4. Planning Testing

Structured Testing

Mid-Level Test Strategy

Test Cases

5. BA-Level Functional Testing in the Automated System

Black Box Testing

Black Box Testing Techniques

Automated Low-Level Test Strategy

6. BA Validation of Processes

Validating Processes

Glass Box Testing Techniques

Process Low-Level Test Strategy

7. Usability Validation

The Importance of Usability

Usability Validation by the BA

Getting Users Involved in Validation

Usability Testing

8. Documenting the Test Plan

Capturing the BA Test Plan

Formal BA Test Plan

9. Acceptance, Installation, and Validation to Business Needs

Acceptance

Installing the System

Validating to the Business Needs

Completing the Project

Cancellation Policy

We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted.
Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.

Training Location

Global Knowledge Montreal
800 Boul. Rene-Levesque Ouest
Bureau 990

Montreal,
QuebecCanada

About Global Knowledge

Global Knowledge is the world's leading learning services and professional development solutions provider. We deliver learning solutions to support customers as they adapt to key business transformations and technological advancements that drive the way that organizations around the world differentiate themselves and thrive. Our learning programs, whether designed for a global organization or an individual professional, help businesses close skills gaps and foster an environment of continuous talent development.

Global Knowledge is the world's leading learning services and professional development solutions provider. We deliver learning solutions to support customers as they adapt to key business transformations and technological advancements that drive the way that organizations around the world differentiate themselves and thrive. Our learning programs, whether designed for a global organization or an individual professional, help businesses close skills gaps and foster an environment of continuous talent development.

Training Provider Rating

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Dayna Grant.

Wasnâ€™t as advanced as I thought it would be. There was an issue when the day my course was the first time they used a new platfo ...
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Wasnâ€™t as advanced as I thought it would be. There was an issue when the day my course was the first time they used a new platform.. from adobe to something called zoom; I had to call support line cause it stated our instructor wasnâ€™t present. Thankfully I called cause everyone online was in the adobe virtual classroom waiting for what looked like a teacher who didnâ€™t show up for class (IT didnâ€™t get anything resolved until 10mins after start time). I felt like he was really getting hung up on very basic knowledge for the first half of the course (talking about how to create tabs and drag formulas as an example). I completed files a few times before he was done explaining. There was a scheduled fire drill for them (roughly 30mins)that also cut into our time, which wasnâ€™t deducted from the hour lunch break or the two, fifteen min breaks. I also really wish he touched base more on the automating workbook functions portion which we barely did.
I'm happy there were/are those study guides (learning videos) and exams to take on my own time that I hope after I've had the class are still available for me to learn from.

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Mohamed Shahin.

It was difficult to practice on my PC while trying to watch the presentation online.

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Stefanie Walsh.

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Gabriela Perez-Jimenez.

David was excellent!! I am very for having this course!!

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Amanda Childs.

Everything was great, but the instructor wasted a lot of time talking about unrelated subjects (like demo-ing different programs, ...
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Everything was great, but the instructor wasted a lot of time talking about unrelated subjects (like demo-ing different programs, talking about other classes, and talks about how Excel/technology has changed) took up way too much time. The course could have been condensed or better focus would have been great

Reviewed Aug 2018

Chris Malicki.

Did not actually receive the course materials yet (and the course has concluded). Ratings assume that I will receive the course m ...
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